"Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom."
- Ira N. Barin
"MOMENTSI saw you firstYou looked exactly The same as beforeTall and awkward and shyI walked towards youMy hands clammy I felt cold insideMy insides were shakingCant runThis is it.U saw meYour face bri..."
- Marianne Escobar
"No achingJust numbnessSadnessThat feeling as ifU miss himBut then you realized,Maybe he wasn't yours To begin with.AndThere were no memories To Reminisce,Only pain.Because you knewFrom the very beginn..."
"In general, it’s not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated to encourage the Illusion of Choice. Other than that they’re looking for nu..."
- Geoffrey Wood Grimrack An Infernal Epistolary
"Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended."
- Floyd C. Forsberg
"How much had I missed in these months of despair and numbness?"
- Sarah J. Maas
"I walked back to the window to look down at the people who shared this city with me. The people who made every day a series of mediocrities.The unreformed murderers masquerading as businessmen in borr..."
- Nasri Atallah
"Dissociation gets you through a brutal experience, letting your basic survival skills operate unimpeded…Your ability to survive is enhanced as the ability to feel is diminished…All feeling are blocked..."
- Renee Fredrickson
"Dissociation, a form of hypnotic trance, helps children survive the abuse…The abuse takes on a dream-like, surreal quality and deadened feelings and altered perceptions add to the strangeness. The who..."
"I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."
- Sylvia Plath